Insert tab



A. J. MACY.

INSERT TAB.

APPLICATION FILED luLY 29.1920. nam-:wen Aue. 29. 1922.

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MMM@ @o .ALFRED J. MACY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIG'NOR` TO MACY ART PROCESS CORPO- RATION, 0F CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

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Application led July 29, 1920, Serial N0.'399,781. Renewed August 28, 1922. Serial No. 584,764.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALFRED J. MACY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city7 of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in an Insert Tab; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the numerals of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an insert tab and provides means whereby thin articles which are to be used in connection with the examination of books, magazines, circulars and the like may be removably secured therein. In' the examination of books, magazines, circulars and the like it is often necessary or desirableto use certain accessory articles such as cards having tablesprinted thereon, index slips, or in certain instances colored goggles which are made by securing pieces of .transparent material in apertures in thin flexible strips. When these articles are necessary for use in connection with the book or magazine thatfis being examined, itis often desirable that they be secured therein when not iny use.` This is especially true of the two color flexible goggles which are used in the examination of colored stereoscopic pictures.

It is an object, therefore, of this invention to provide means whereby thin articles may be removabl secured in books, magazines, circulars an the like.

It is an important object of this invention to provide means'which are formed in one leaf of a book, magazine, or the like, whereby thin articles may be secured therein and whereby said articles may be conveniently removed therefrom, when said book or magazine is opened for examination.

. Other and further important objects of this invention will be apparent from the disclosures in the specification and the accompanying drawings. f

The invention (in a preferred form) is shown on the drawings and hereinafter more fully described. i

On the drawings: Figure l is a view in elevation showing an adaptation of the device of this invention.

Figure 2 is an enlarged fragmentary section on line 2--2 of Figure l.

Figure 3 is a fragmentary elevation showmg an insert tab embodying the principles of this invention.

As shownb on the drawings:

The insert tab of this invention is conveniently formed by providing a tl-shaped slit 111 the leaves of a book or magazine,- preferably near the hinged portion thereof.` Said slit is shown in Figure 3 and indicated by the reference numeral 1, `a tab formed thereby being indicated by the reference numeral 2, while 3 indicates the leaf of the book, circular or magazine. Figure l shows the insert tab 2 in use with a pair of flexible goggles 4 inserted thereunder. Due to the fact that the insert tab is ordinarily placed near the hinged portion of the leaf of the book. it is apparent that opening the book will act to raise said tabslightly away from the leaf from which it is formed due to the flexing of the leaf caused by opening the same,

thus facilitating the insertion of articles thereunder and the removal of articles there-4 land fall well within the spirit of this invention. v

The incision which is made to provide the insert tab 2 does not interfere with the printing or decorating of the page 3 and for this reason provides a particularly desirable means for securing thin articles thereto.

I am' aware that details and modifications may be varied through a wide range without departing from the principles of this lnvention, and I therefore do not purpose limiting the patent granted otherwise than necessitated by the prior art.

I claim as` my invention: p

l. The combination with a book, magazine or the like, having normally plane leaves of inwardly directed securing means associated with a leaf thereof, said securing means acting to rise from the plane of the leaf upon flexing of the leaf, thereby fac1litating the insertion of thin articles therezine, or the like, of anL insert tab formed ad-Vv jacent the hinged portion of one of the leaves thereof for removably securing thin articles therein, said insert tab acting to rise above the plane of the leaf from which it is formed when the book or the magazine is opened.

3. In aivolume, leaves, normally plane but becoming curved near the bound edges there of when the volume is opened, one of said leaves having a cut forming a tab with its free end towardl the boundedge of the leaf, said cut being located in that part of the leaf which becomes curved when the volume is opened, whereby on opening the volume at said leaf the end of said tab will project from the surface of the leaf.

4. A card, transparent eye places in said card, a notch for the nose in one edge of the card between the eye places, in combination with a book cover having a Hap on the inner -side thereof so located that there is only room betweenthe backiof said `flap and the binding edge of said cover for the narrow part of said card produced by said notch.

5. In combinatioma leaf, having a tab with its -free end toward the bound 'edge of said leaf, and an object of sheet material, having a notch in one edge, the distance of the tab from the bound edge of the leaf being such'that, when the object is inserted beneath the tab with the notch against the non-free end of the tab, the opposite edge of the object will be adjacent the bound edge of the leaf.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

`ALFRED J MAC-Y.

Witnesses.:

CARLTON HILL, SPENCER W. GIBBs. 

